Dr. Kent Calder, the Director of the Reischauer Center, has given a Congressional testimony before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittiee on Asia, the Pacific, and the Global Environment on June 25, 2009, titled "Japan's Changing Role." For the details on the testimony, click here.
"Neither Japanese politics nor the U.S.-Japan relationship today are static. Indeed, Japanese politics may well be on the verge of historic change. Understanding and coping with that prospect of historic change in Tokyo is the distinctive, unusual challenge that American policy-makers confront today—one that they have not faced with such intensity in nearly half a century. Read more.
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U.S. Economic Recovery and East Asia
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US-Japan-China Relations
East Asian and Eurasian Energy Issues
US-Japan Relations in Global Context
Japan and Korea
Japan's Political Economy
Japanese Security Policy
Sino-Japan Relations
Asian Regionalism
Base Politics
Eurasian Energy Geopolitics
Global Political Economy
U.S. Economic Recovery and East Asia
U.S. East Asia Policy
US-Japan-China Relations
East Asian and Eurasian Energy Issues
US-Japan Relations in Global Context
Japan and Korea
Japan's Political Economy
Japanese Security Policy
Sino-Japan Relations
Asian Regionalism
Base Politics
Eurasian Energy Geopolitics
Global Political Economy
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Northeast Asia Political Economy Seminar
Tokyo-Reischauer Group:
Online Trans-Pacific Discussion Group on US-Japan Relations
Visiting Scholars Program
Reischauer Memorial Lectures
International Conferences
US-Japan Policy Dialogue
Annual Year Book